mum

i enter your room
after you have passed
but you're still here

i can smell your perfume
your clothes
and i can feel your presence
your love

i enter your room
two weeks earlier
you are in your bed
smiling at me
your voice familiar
and warm
and motherly

i don't remember you as sick
or tired
i remember you as beautiful
and strong

mum

you showed us the ocean
and the colour of the sky
you gave us the world
the stars

you made us daisy chains
and sung to us
you made us who we are
and who we'll soon be

one day
i will think of your laugh
and smile
but for now
i cry

mum

you're still here
i can feel it in every breath
and though the world seems very dark
the sun still shines

love lives on